Monday 24Jan2022
Today's readings took me through the Book of Numbers chapters 4 to 10 in the Old Testament and the Gospel according to Luke chapters 13 to 15 in the New Testament.
A verse that spoke to me this afternoon is from Numbers chapter 9 which tells us that throughout their wandering in the wilderness, the children of Israel stopped and set up camp whenever the LORD commanded them to do so. Likewise, they broke camp and removed when the LORD commanded them again.
Numbers 9:18 LXX Septuagint Brenton
The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp.
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One, like the children of Israel sojourning for forty years in the wilderness, we are sojourning in this world today.
And like the children of Israel, there are times when the LORD tells us to stop and "encamp" in a particular place, to do a particular work, or even be stalled in a particular situation without making progress as we wish. Let us "set up camp" wherever the LORD leads us to do His will and accomplish His purpose while we wait patiently for Him to tell us to move on to another place or work or circumstances that he has willed for us.
